This document discusses information architecture, user experience design, and their integration in digital educational spaces. It provides an overview and discusses emergent design principles from the New London Group on multiliteracies. These principles include situated practice, overt instruction, critical framing, and transformed practice. The document also discusses tools and materials used in digital educational spaces, including blogs, wikis, storyboards, and multiplayer virtual environments. Finally, it suggests this points to a new student-centered model with implications for teacher training, learning technologies, and society.

1. German E. Vargas Math., Science, & Learning Technology Information Architecture and User Experience Design in Digital Educational Spaces UMass Amherst School of Education Dept. of Teacher Ed. & Curriculum Studies

2. Information Architecture User Experience Design Digital Educational Spaces Integration & Design Principles Discussion Overview

3. Information Architecture (IA) Visit iainstitute.org to learn more.

4. User Experience Design (UXD) Visit www.upassoc.org to learn more.

5. Digital Educational Spaces Squeak

6. IA, UX, & Education

7. Emergent Design Principles The New London Group – Multiliteracies Situated Practice Overt Instruction Critical Framing Transformed Practice Harvard Educational Review 66, 1 (1996)

8. But wait, there’s more! Multimodal Designs(NLG - Kress) Diversity & Multiculturalism (Nieto, 1992 & 2007)

9. New Media & Internet Culture Convergence & Participatory Culture (Jenkins, 2006) Cyberliteracy & Youth Media (Morrell, 2004 & 2008) Social Media (mashups, remixes, citizen journalism, open source software, creative commons,etc)

10. Educational Design Holistic Vision (Social) Robust Applications (Technological) Authentic Learning (Pedagogical) Transformative Practice (Critical/Political)

11. Tools, Materials, & Activities Blogs, Microblogs, & Wikis Storyboards, Web comics, & infographics Digital Storytelling MUVEs & Serious Games

12. New Model – What does it mean? Student-Centered Pedagogy Teacher Training Learning Media & Technology Knowledge & Society